Mercifully short, you can get through "Hercules and the Princess of Troy" in well under an hour, and still catch a cup of coffee before going off to work. Gordon Scott does the beefcake honors in this installment of the sword and sandal franchise, assisted by Mart Hulswit as his protégé Ulysses, and philosopher friend Diogenes, played by Paul Stevens. I had to wonder why Diana Hyland looked so much older than her mere twenty nine years at the time of the picture; perhaps that's what these flicks did to a young woman, never mind the virgin sacrifices to hideous sea monsters.
It doesn't take that long for Hercules to mix it up with the giant caterpillar sea creature in hand to claw combat for the finale. His only other ordeal was getting out of the pit King Petra's men threw him in. I didn't consider the opening battle against the pirates as too much of a struggle, as Herc and his men seemed to be having a good time of it all.
The only novel idea written into the picture had to do with the invulnerable divine horses of Minerva which were made a gift to Hercules when he decided to go up against the sea monster. After all that fuss, the bad guys switched horses to the mere mortal kind, and that didn't have any bearing on the outcome of the story.
Hercules and the boys sure didn't waste any time sticking around once they saved the day. I would have thought he could hang around at least one more day to see Princess Diana become queen like he promised earlier, I mean, what was the rush? It would have been cool to see a crowning and a big banquet afterwards, with all the guests feasting on generous amounts of seafood salad, compliments of you know who.
It doesn't take that long for Hercules to mix it up with the giant caterpillar sea creature in hand to claw combat for the finale. His only other ordeal was getting out of the pit King Petra's men threw him in. I didn't consider the opening battle against the pirates as too much of a struggle, as Herc and his men seemed to be having a good time of it all.
The only novel idea written into the picture had to do with the invulnerable divine horses of Minerva which were made a gift to Hercules when he decided to go up against the sea monster. After all that fuss, the bad guys switched horses to the mere mortal kind, and that didn't have any bearing on the outcome of the story.
Hercules and the boys sure didn't waste any time sticking around once they saved the day. I would have thought he could hang around at least one more day to see Princess Diana become queen like he promised earlier, I mean, what was the rush? It would have been cool to see a crowning and a big banquet afterwards, with all the guests feasting on generous amounts of seafood salad, compliments of you know who.